Interpol Details Plans For Global Biometric Facial Scan
Database Every traveler to be scanned and checked against
terrorist faces

Steve Watson

Infowars.net

Monday, Oct 20, 2008

Global security authorities are to push for a huge biometric
facial scan database of international travelers so they can
cross-check everyone against a database of terror suspects,
international criminals and fugitives. Interpol, the
International Criminal Police Organization, is planning to
expand its role into the mass screening of passengers moving
around the world by creating a face recognition database to
catch wanted suspects, reports the London Guardian.

The database will hold the records of every citizen who has
ever traveled in and out of the virtually every country in
the world, representing intelligence agency style bulk
interception of information and sounding alarm bells for
civil liberties groups. Two months ago we reported on the
moves underway to phase out passport control officers at
airports and replace them with biometric face scanning
cameras. The automated face recognition gates match
passengers to a digital image stored on a microchip in the
new e-passports.

Interpol wants a facial database to be linked into this
technology and used in conjunction with its already existing
fingerprint and DNA databases, according to Mark
Branchflower, head of Interpol's fingerprint unit. (Article
continues below)

We have previously noted that the vast array of databases
currently being employed by intelligence agencies,
government and law enforcement agencies worldwide were
designed to be linked together in a system which will tie in
the management and control of all facets of life for
citizens to one central hub. Earlier this year we reported
on the announcement of a vast intelligence program to
establish a global biometric database known as "Server in
the Sky" that will collate and provide an " International
Information Consortium" with access to the biometric
measurements and personal information of citizens across the
globe in the name of fighting the "war on terror".

As reported by the London Guardian, the plan is being
formulated by the FBI with the cooperation of the home
offices and law enforcement agencies of American allies. The
technology is being supplied by the US defense company
Northrop Grumman. Furthermore, the use of such technology,
as we have already seen, will not be limited to the passport
control office.

A 2007 British government report muted an extensive upgrade
to cctv systems all across the country to incorporate facial
scanning technology. The report suggested a central database
of every camera and a network allowing access to it could be
beneficial. In the US there are several schemes that use
Facial Recognition Technology in conjunction with Federal
agencies, tying the technology to traditional documents such
as drivers licenses, passports and credit cards.

A biometric face recognition system has already been
approved in China and is expected to be used at airports,
customs entrances, banks, post offices, residential areas
and other public places in the near future. Other proposals
include placing the cameras in every seat on aircraft and
installing software to try and automatically detect
terrorists or other dangers caused by passengers.

We are assured that cigarette vending machines will employ
the technology in order to enforce smoking laws. Similarly,
supermarkets in the UK have already started trialing the
technology with the justification being a crackdown on
underage drinking. In Japan facial scanning cameras are
being installed in train and bus stations to replace tickets
in a move to make the individual features of the face a
"unique bar code" as part of an antiterrorism and anticrime
initiative.

Police in Tokyo are also asking home and shop owners to
mount the cameras outside their properties. "Police
investigating an incident in the neighborhood would have
access to these images." according to reports. Cell phones
and computers are now also being produced with face scanning
cameras.

"Does the Brotherhood exist?" "That Winston, you will never
know. If we choose to set you free when we have finished
with you, and if you live to be ninety years old, still you
will never learn whether the answer to that question is yes
or no. As long as you live, it will be a riddle in your
mind." -- 1984 by George Orwell

"Thus, virtually the entire American telecommunications system
is bugged by two Israeli-formed companies with possible links to Israel's
eavesdropping agency--with no oversight by Congress." -- James Bamford, The Shadow Factory, 2008, DOUBLEDAY, page
246

"Big Brother will be watching you, thanks to biometric face recognition software. The REAL ID Act provides for federally mandated use of biometric data embedded in state driver's licenses."
TNA, June 27, 2005

"With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to recieve and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end. Every citizen, or at least every citizen worth watching, could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police and the sound of official propaganda." George Orwell, 1984, 1948

"...that no man might buy or sell, save that had the mark,
or the name of the beast, or the number of his name" (Revelation
13:17)"